#based on a batik-dyed shirt I owned when I first played

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While looking into sashiko, I inadvertently came across shibori, an ancient Japanese method of resist dyeing, usually with indigo.

And it looked really familiar.

Oh!

Ohhhhh!

#I always figured the pattern was resist dye #based on a batik-dyed shirt I owned when I first played #tsutsugaki is also likely #but it never occurred to me that the color was indigo! #legend of zelda #wind waker #link #fabrics

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Kathy Robinson, Batik Wearables Designer — www.kathyrobinsonbatik.com

Kimono-Style Jacket, batik and hand painted silk, $320

“Often when asked to provide a written description of my work, it never fails to remind me of the fundamental preference for speaking through the work itself. I continue to find comfort in the simple tools and techniques of batik that I first encountered on the banks of the Delaware in the early Seventies. At first, now as then, I seem to see color and its emotional nuance in a piece; line and texture to follow.”

Kathy Robinson is a professional Batik artist and designer working out of her studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Relying heavily on the ancient wax resist method of Batik and using the Tjanting, the traditional Indonesian wood and metal tool, each piece is worked on as an individual canvas. The design of the garment, how it fits and flows on the body also play an important role in her “Wearable Art.” Recent studies in painting at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts have influenced her use of color and also led to more “painterly” techniques on the silk. Her work has been carried by museum shops and galleries across the country, including The Michener Art Museum Shop, Woodmere Art Museum Shop, Brandywine River Museum Shop, Portfolio at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Milwaukee Art Museum, and Museum of Jewish Heritage.

Gloria Rohlfs — [email protected]

Chakra Meditation, acrylic on canvas with lace, 16″ x 18″, $100

Rohlfs creates her art utilizing acrylics, fabric, photography and found objects. Her early work was influenced by quilting. Her art is inspired by her interest in the environment, peace, human rights and earth-based spirituality. Rohlfs’s work has been exhibited in group shows in upstate New York; New York City; and Philadelphia. Gloria Rohlfs has lived in Iowa; Munich, Germany; New York City and the Catskill Mountains.  

Mia Rosenthal — [email protected]

iPhone (Scott),  4 ½ x 2 ¼ inches, ink, pencil and gouache on paper, $300

Mia Rosenthal will be having her first solo museum exhibition Mia Rosenthal: Paper Lens at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the fall of 2015. She was awarded a 2014 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund Grant for the Performing and Visual Arts and a 2015 fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center. Her drawings are included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Woodmere Art Museum, the Arkansas Arts Center, the Progressive Collection, Fidelity Investments and Wellington Management.

Rosenthal’s recent exhibitions include Keeping It Real: Recent Acquisitions of Narrative and Realist Art, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 12th National Drawing Invitational: Outside the Lines, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, A Little Bit Every Day at Gallery Joe, Philadelphia and Here and Now: Prints, Drawings and Photographs by 10 Philadelphia Artists at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Barbara Rosin, [email protected]

Minion of Peace, Ink Drawing, $125

Edward Sargent — [email protected]

The Angels of Our Better Nature Visit The Shenandoah, 28” x 14” x 4”, collage, $150

Age 74, graduated from Chestnut Hill Academy 1960, attended Tyler School of Fine Art 1960-63. Otherwise self taught. Exhibited at the Vis-à-vis Gallery in Philadelphia in 1963 and then at the Mt. Airy Art Garage 2013-14, but not during the intervening years.

Everything presents points of reference to me from the religious art of the Renaissance to the old Flash Gordon serials. I try to reach what I cannot reach.

Nettie Scott — [email protected]

Mosaic turquoise and spiral copper pendant necklace, $55

The crab agate and antique copper pendant necklace, $50

Nettie Scott, a retired social worker, spent thirty happy years in Alaska, working in the field of cross cultural mental health and addictions as well as teaching at the University of Alaska Anchorage.   She has lived in many places around the globe, always fascinated by ethnic arts and crafts. An amateur potter when she moved to the Alaskan “bush” she found that the harsh environment was not friendly to pottery making. A few years later she discovered polymer clay and began making her own beads, as well as fashioning jewelry from ethnic findings, porcelain, pearls and semi-precious stone beads. Now she is exploring mixed media polymer clay work, creating mostly functional art and using polymer clay as a painting medium. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, Dan Shanis, occasionally teaching the basics of working with polymer clay and jewelry making.

Laurel Schwass-Drew — http://lsdrewgraphics.etsy.com

Gift Certificate for a T-Shirt, $26

Laurel Schwass-Drew, aka L.S-Drew Graphics, is a Northwest Philadelphia-based printmaker who specializes in producing her own line of wearable textile imagery, mostly in the form of hand-pulled screenprints on T-shirts, and on hand-dyed scarves made of cotton or silk. Her wearables can be found in the personal collections of a growing number of loyal fans, both locally and across the world.

My line of hand-screen-printed T-shirts — hand-dyed & screenprinted silk, cotton scarves, all featuring my eclectic imagery for a touch of local artisan-produced little luxuries. Treat yourself or a friend!

Patricia Cousins Smith — [email protected]

South African Zulu Mother and Child Weaver, Photographic Print, $110

#2015